Canton, Nov. 13.
Following the announcement of the adoption of a policy of unified control for the rolled tobacco buslhess, the Shanghai Rolled Tobacco Merchants Gulld, according to the Central Press, his sent a petition to the Provincial Government, requesting them to cancel the scheme. The Finance Department, under instruetions from the Provincial Government, again has taken the matter into consideration.
It ts stated that the plan, which provides for the restriction of consumption, does not confilet with the the leading cultural and tourist cen-fre of the Far East—Reuter. be spread over a period of nine years imposition of a tax on rolled tobacco. from 1997.—Reuter.
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